Indeed. If you like ~60% of SF rents with ~39% of SF pay it's the city for you. I still like it here, but I have a flat that I got crazy cheap in 2013 and is r

Indeed. If you like ~60% of SF rents with ~39% of SF pay it's the city for you. I still like it here, but I have a flat that I got crazy cheap in 2013 and is rent controlled (incidentally, a horrifically stupid policy enacted _especially_ badly here, making the housing crisis even worse). I also just got a remote job and bought a house in Offaly. I used to encourage people to come to Dublin because it offered better QOL than the bay (I like not being annoyed on weekends and holidays, and that even my non-tech-worker wife gets a month off a year by law) but I really can't any more unless your housing is arranged or you have a fantastic (California-level) offer